2026

2026

Quite Narrow

The title has to do with our paths through life. If, that is, one is interested in eternity. I once thought that living to and through eternity was science fiction but I...

January 14, 2026

Guffaw!

Harry Truman was the president when I was born. Now, that feels like another dimension when I look out at the world. A world in which I sailed half of while serving...

January 12, 2026

Communism

You gotta love the communists. Well, if you love menacing clowns that is. Nowhere that it has been installed has it worked. Yet, the moxie of these individuals, because it is never...

January 10, 2026

Republic

Our country is a republic. America is a nation filled out by states with the federal government having jurisdiction over the fifty states that make up the territories of this nation. The...

January 10, 2026

Venezuela

So, Maduro is gone from power. I guess that’s a good thing? I really don’t know so I take people’s word for that being a good thing. We were getting toward the...

January 6, 2026

Oddity

It has come to my attention that my old political party is totally out to lunch now. By out to lunch means, for their new dogma, that they are eating Chinese food,...

January 5, 2026

Circumstance

Are we here due to circumstance, luck, roll of the dice, or because we are meant to be here? One might suppose that our presence isn’t luck so much as biological circumstance....

January 4, 2026

Bologna Mamdani

Well, glory-be, New York has a newly elected mayor. Bologna Mamdani. Who da thunk, sixty years ago when the nation was well aware of communism, collectivism, and torture and murder of mind...

January 2, 2026